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he says he is willing to talk about deficit reduction, perhaps modest reduction to healthcare spending. as long as it comes with curbing loopholes and tax reductions for wealthier individuals. congress should just do it. back to you. connell: let's bring in dylan glenn. former advisor to george w bush. rich said that republicans have reasons for not having this meeting today. the president is standing back and think i am not negotiating on this and the republicans are all over the map. >> i do not think that this is a big deal. i do not see that as a big issue. what is coming out of this weekend retreat is far more important. connell: i would like to be a fly on the wall for that. >> also what is important is to remember how we got here. he has run trillion dollar deficits for the past four years of his administration. you have to pass a budget in the united states senate. he will be doing his sort of constitution getting a budget up to the congress. this is a challenge. we have to have a clear look at how we can reduce spending in this country. connell: whenever the limit is actually
he says he is willing to talk about deficit reduction, perhaps modest reduction to healthcare spending. as long as it comes with curbing loopholes and tax reductions for wealthier individuals. congress should just do it. back to you. connell: let's bring in dylan glenn. former advisor to george w bush. rich said that republicans have reasons for not having this meeting today. the president is standing back and think i am not negotiating on this and the republicans are all over the map. >>...
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there is a similar thing with healthcare. the president could use executive authority and lay the foundation and act to accelerate that movement to the digital platform. >> where does congress come in? >> in a number of places. at the end of the book, we lay out for trades we think congress could take part. one is related to the broadband area. there was a ceo council that suggested that there are trillions of dollars of savings if the government moved all of its business services to the digital platform. what we proposed is a commission is where you get ceos in a room, make them look at those problems and have specific solutions. give congress an up-and-down vote on what to do. there is an order to do that. that would be worth efficient and things like that. we need to make sure that everyone in the country is online. in other words, if we will move everything to the digital form, which is what we want to do, you cannot leave anyone behind. there are others. >> other examples, let's take corporate tax. it seems unlikely that
there is a similar thing with healthcare. the president could use executive authority and lay the foundation and act to accelerate that movement to the digital platform. >> where does congress come in? >> in a number of places. at the end of the book, we lay out for trades we think congress could take part. one is related to the broadband area. there was a ceo council that suggested that there are trillions of dollars of savings if the government moved all of its business services...
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the postal service had no debt as of 2005, but because of email and congress requiring it to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future retirees, the usps is cash- strapped. one other mention - a federal appeals court ruled post office gave special treatment to netflix, and can no longer discriminate against other mail-order companies. the challenge was filed by video game rental service gamefly. the video gaming industry continues to lose players. sales of games and consoles were down 22% in 2012. sales declined 9% the previous year. it's attributed to players trending toward new digital devices and game producers such as microsoft investing in more popular titles only. the industry could face challeges ahead as gun control measures are expected out of washington. video game creators met with vice president joe biden last week. the obama administration is seeking information from the industry on factors that influence violence following last month's shootings in newtown, conneticut. salaries for new grads are on the rise. the job market is still lagging, but starting salaries for 2012 college grad
the postal service had no debt as of 2005, but because of email and congress requiring it to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future retirees, the usps is cash- strapped. one other mention - a federal appeals court ruled post office gave special treatment to netflix, and can no longer discriminate against other mail-order companies. the challenge was filed by video game rental service gamefly. the video gaming industry continues to lose players. sales of games and consoles were down 22% in...
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. > healthcare, food services up, even while we have government jobs, those numbers are going down still. > > sure. for the year government jobs actually contracted. earlier on in the recovery, or before the recovery actually, private jobs were actually contracting faster and government jobs weren't doing much. now you are starting to see the opposite occur, where private sector jobs are coming back and government jobs have kind of slowed and actually contracted quite a bit. > what is your read? what is your take on this? we still have 7.8% as the official unemployment rate. so, is it just trickling along as before? > > sure. i think one of the hardest things that we have to do now in my profession is figure out what policymakers and politicians are going to do. unfortunately, the fiscal cliff came and went, but nothing really was solved, and we're going to have another one of those coming up in february, which is probably going to keep a lid on hiring for a while. all in all, 2012 and 2011, about 153,000 employees were added per month. the unemployment rate ticked down 8/10 of 1% in 201
. > healthcare, food services up, even while we have government jobs, those numbers are going down still. > > sure. for the year government jobs actually contracted. earlier on in the recovery, or before the recovery actually, private jobs were actually contracting faster and government jobs weren't doing much. now you are starting to see the opposite occur, where private sector jobs are coming back and government jobs have kind of slowed and actually contracted quite a bit. > what...
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the pension shortfall and healthcare account for that. also here in washington, news that we have been reporting here on fox for the last week, by the end of this week, jack lu will succeed treasury secretary tim geithner. we knew that enough was likely coming at the end of this week. the afghanistan president is in town on friday. we are looking at tomorrow. still have not confirmed that specific portion. lori: thank you so much. melissa: dish network submitting an offer to buy wireless broadband provider clear wire for $3.30 a share or $5.15 billion. topping an earlier bid from sprint. >> once again you follow what the consumer is doing and they are moving to wireless. we want to offer wireless voice and video. don: how about a direct tv merger? >> there is a lot of speculation. melissa: pressing him and getting the story. sprint which owns half of clear wire they throw a wrench in dishes plan. they could push for large shareholders to force sprint to sell. lori: i am looking down, it is good to see some competition. robert -- will lead
the pension shortfall and healthcare account for that. also here in washington, news that we have been reporting here on fox for the last week, by the end of this week, jack lu will succeed treasury secretary tim geithner. we knew that enough was likely coming at the end of this week. the afghanistan president is in town on friday. we are looking at tomorrow. still have not confirmed that specific portion. lori: thank you so much. melissa: dish network submitting an offer to buy wireless...
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pro-government medical workers turn out in protest but it's interesting about these protests in the healthcare sector is that it's different from a sociological point of view from all the protests we're seeing around spain we've seen of course teachers and. public sector workers of all sorts transporter all the services are basically on strike or are staging protests now what is different about the is that you have doctors which are traditionally in spain like elsewhere are traditionally more conservative very much the same they backed the government prior to election so this is their own people very center happy with the way the government is going so i think it will it will make a difference it will it will cost some extra problems for that for the current government. as unemployment brings despair to what was once a land of prosperity many of those who are hunting for better live and almost making some unexpected choices you see cavanagh reports from venezuela on why the country is becoming watch active place to move to. with no end in sight to the financial crisis many are finding refuge i
pro-government medical workers turn out in protest but it's interesting about these protests in the healthcare sector is that it's different from a sociological point of view from all the protests we're seeing around spain we've seen of course teachers and. public sector workers of all sorts transporter all the services are basically on strike or are staging protests now what is different about the is that you have doctors which are traditionally in spain like elsewhere are traditionally more...
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you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. ♪ >> apparently -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. . >> -- was so devastated by losing homecoming queen she walked into a duncan doughnuts and never came out. >> stephanie: 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. lots of debate in washington over guns and the debt ceiling. representative peter welch of the great state of vermont joining us. good morning, representative. >> good morning. >> stephanie: i have hope this is going to play out differently. am i misguided. >> well, it's worthy of worry, and i'll tell you why. the republicans used this successfully. we blew it in august when we allowed them to make a link between negotiations and our obligation to pay bills, and it did real damage. we had our first credit downgrade, so they h
you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. ♪ >> apparently -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. . >> -- was so devastated by losing homecoming queen she walked into a duncan doughnuts and...
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julia who from cradle to grave depended on good old uncle sugar for everything from education, a job, healthcare, food, housing, and retirement. now, the women in my family and the women i know and work with, well, frankly, they are as good as any of the men that i know and work with i never thought of them as being helpless and unable to function without someone from the government or some man sheparding them through life. silly me. it just never occurred to me that i needed to see women as helpless. i guess that's why the liberals went stark rating linda blair with her head spinning circles and pea soup enraged at me. i'm not the one that you ought to be mad at. i was just saying what some of your heros have said. you see, if women aren't getting much more than birth control pills and abortion from this administration, sure not my fault. i don't support taking the life of babies anyway. and i'm okay if you want contraceptives, but since you want me out of your bedroom, i just don't know why i have to pay for what happens in there. that's my view. [ applause ] well, joining me now conservative
julia who from cradle to grave depended on good old uncle sugar for everything from education, a job, healthcare, food, housing, and retirement. now, the women in my family and the women i know and work with, well, frankly, they are as good as any of the men that i know and work with i never thought of them as being helpless and unable to function without someone from the government or some man sheparding them through life. silly me. it just never occurred to me that i needed to see women as...
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take a look at healthcare. this is, sue, people try to hedge themselves out. financials and materials and consumer discussionnary, pfizer is the second biggest gainer in the dow. so people are backing into the more conservative names as well. put up the s&p and i want it point out we are up 3%. considering people aren't sure what to do right now, these are pretty good gains. side ways today, i'm fine with that. >> thank you, bob. to the bond market, well see whether rick santelli is fine with what is going on in chicago there. hi, ricky. >> hi. the bond market is the only sane sector in my opinion as you look at an interday today, taking a round about lower rate process to get there and if you open the chart up, we are going long here and going for the fair way here, if you open it up to ten years, once again you can clearly see the trend is to lower rates. but all stimulus is fundable. look the a the japanese for the last ten years on their jgb. it certainly looks like a similar trend. trends are easy to pick out. look at ten-year of the dollar yen. now this
take a look at healthcare. this is, sue, people try to hedge themselves out. financials and materials and consumer discussionnary, pfizer is the second biggest gainer in the dow. so people are backing into the more conservative names as well. put up the s&p and i want it point out we are up 3%. considering people aren't sure what to do right now, these are pretty good gains. side ways today, i'm fine with that. >> thank you, bob. to the bond market, well see whether rick santelli is...
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you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. >> apparently being. >> stephanie miller -- >> involves having two arms and two legs and the occasional oracle. >> stephanie: enough about my weakness. >> i didn't know john lithgow was your boyfriend. >> stephanie: 1-800-steph-12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. oh, did i say former and future? isn't that what i said? >> it is not former and future. it is current! >> announcer: and now it's time for congressman alan grayson and your chance to taste the grayson. >> stephanie: good morning current. >> how fashionable. former and fashionable. >> stephanie: good morning sir. >> hi, how are you? >> stephanie: good. how was the big fancy, becoming a congressman again ceremony? >> i got through it. i had to say i do or something like that. i had to ta
you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. >> apparently being. >> stephanie miller -- >> involves having two arms and two legs and the occasional oracle. >> stephanie: enough about...
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people sometimes forget that their own healthcare providers have vaccines. >> california is not sharing any of its supply to the states that are running out. instead they are saving it for the weeks ahead. >>> and we checked around. most cvs stores in the bay area are sold out of the flu shot but you can get it in palo alto on el camino real, in san jose near westgate mall, and in fremont at the hub. >>> all right, michelle. 6:20 now. it's been reported all over the world: people who eat fish are getting too much mercury. a study of samples from eight countries found more than 80% of human hair samples had mercury levels exceeding the epa limits. the biodiversity research institute also found mercury levels in fish above safe levels, as well. >>> a nine-week-old puppy in australia is saved by an unusual treatment involving vodka. >> i guess so. an american staff if i named cleo was just hours away from a fatal kid and a failure after licking antifreeze but then a veterinarian came up with a cure, a vodka trip through the dog's nose. >> it is toxins in that called ethylene glycol and the
people sometimes forget that their own healthcare providers have vaccines. >> california is not sharing any of its supply to the states that are running out. instead they are saving it for the weeks ahead. >>> and we checked around. most cvs stores in the bay area are sold out of the flu shot but you can get it in palo alto on el camino real, in san jose near westgate mall, and in fremont at the hub. >>> all right, michelle. 6:20 now. it's been reported all over the...
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government be delivering services and to perhaps, you know, as the president often times says in terms of healthcare reform, that he wants to bend the cost curve. i fear some of this intervention is more bending the cost curve the wrong way. dagen: it was great to see you, brian. thank you for weighing in on jack lew. we will see you soon. connell: this herbal life center we have been covering is still front and center. the company trying to put out a fire started by an activist center. dagen: we will also talk to congressman rangel on the cabinet. connell: let's take a look at some more markets. a lot more coming up including a report from boston on this flu outbreak. keep it here. connell: you look at things down in washington and capitol hill seems to be concerned like we all are about this hard-hitting flu virus sweeping the nation because the california congressman sent a tweet out a picture of himself getting a flu shot, telling his followers to keep an eye on the cdc's website. dagen: at least he's not crying. after boston's mayor declared a public health state of emergency, congressman mcgov
government be delivering services and to perhaps, you know, as the president often times says in terms of healthcare reform, that he wants to bend the cost curve. i fear some of this intervention is more bending the cost curve the wrong way. dagen: it was great to see you, brian. thank you for weighing in on jack lew. we will see you soon. connell: this herbal life center we have been covering is still front and center. the company trying to put out a fire started by an activist center. dagen:...
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you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. irene, drop the itch. we dropped the itch, you can too. maximum strength scalpicin® is not a shampoo so you can stop intense itch fast, wherever you are. i dropped the itch. drop the itch with scalpicin®. >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation on your radio and on current tv, this is the "bill press show." >> bill: new york state becomes the first state to act on gun violence after newtown connecticut. state of maryland soon to follow. who needs congress? what do you say? hello, everybody. great to see you today. good morning, good morning, good morning! and welcome to the "full court press." here on current tv. and your local progressive talk radio station. this tuesday morning. january 15. so good to see you today. and welcome to the program. a
you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our viewers with the ability to argue with their conservative uncle joe over the dinner table. irene, drop the itch. we dropped the itch, you can too. maximum strength scalpicin® is not a shampoo so you can stop intense itch fast, wherever you are. i...
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steinberg said at the top of the agenda are a water bond, gun control, implementing the new federal healthcare plan and education funding. now, this also means that they can even override a veto of their own democratic governor. republicans said their role will to be hold democrats accountal for their decision. stein berg said they will -- steinberg said they will continue to listen to republican ideas. >> it will be up to the republicans to decide how they want to governp. because in the past, i -- govern. because in the past, i don't think it's unfair to say that they have obstructioned, especially when -- obstructed, especially when it comes to a reasonable balance between living within your means but also having the revenue necessary to fund education necessary. >> reporter: and with this super majority, democrats hope to have a budget passed on time. one thing we asked them about was the repeal of proposition 8 depending upon the decision made by the supreme court and steinberg said he wouldn't pull putting that before voters depending upon what happens with the supreme court. one thing t
steinberg said at the top of the agenda are a water bond, gun control, implementing the new federal healthcare plan and education funding. now, this also means that they can even override a veto of their own democratic governor. republicans said their role will to be hold democrats accountal for their decision. stein berg said they will -- steinberg said they will continue to listen to republican ideas. >> it will be up to the republicans to decide how they want to governp. because in the...